{"id":261229,"date":"2026-06-01T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/peabo-bryson-suffers-stroke-family-requests-privacy\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:50:12","slug":"peabo-bryson-suffers-stroke-family-requests-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/peabo-bryson-suffers-stroke-family-requests-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Peabo Bryson suffers stroke, family requests privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/entertainment\/music\/peabo-bryson-stroke-hs5o6jx1\">Peabo Bryson suffers stroke, family requests privacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/entertainment\/music\/peabo-bryson-stroke-hs5o6jx1\">https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/entertainment\/music\/peabo-bryson-stroke-hs5o6jx1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-01 13:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.newsday.com\">www.newsday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smooth-voiced\u00a0R&#038;B singer Peabo Bryson, best known for his duets from the Disney films &#8220;Aladdin&#8221; and &#8220;Beauty and the Beast,&#8221; has suffered a stroke,\u00a0according to a statement from his representative to Variety on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and balladeer, Peabo Bryson \u2014 the voice behind the Oscar-winning Disney songs \u2018Beauty and the Beast\u2019 and \u2018A Whole New World\u2019 \u2014 has suffered a stroke and is currently under medical care,&#8221; the statement read. &#8220;At this time, the family requests privacy as they navigate this deeply personal moment together. The thoughts, prayers and love of friends and fans are welcomed and deeply appreciated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bryson, 75, had\u00a0hits with these\u00a0two songs, duets with Celine Dion and Regina Belle, respectively, winning back-to-back Grammys for best pop performance by a duo or group with vocals in 1993 and 1994.\u00a0Both tracks were also nominated for record of the year.<\/p>\n<p>In 1984 he scored his first Top 10 pop hit, &#8220;If Ever You\u2019re in My Arms Again.&#8221; Other big hits included duets with two\u00a0female r&#038;b singers: &#8220;Tonight, I Celebrate My Love&#8221; with Roberta Flack and\u00a0&#8220;What You Won&#8217;t Do for Love&#8221; with Natalie Cole.<\/p>\n<p>In 1985, he appeared on the soap opera &#8220;One Life to Live,&#8221; adding vocals its theme song. His version was subsequently adapted as the show\u2019s main theme and ran on every episode for the next seven years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/entertainment\/music\/peabo-bryson-stroke-hs5o6jx1\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peabo Bryson suffers stroke, family requests privacy https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/entertainment\/music\/peabo-bryson-stroke-hs5o6jx1 Publish Date: 2026-06-01 13:45:00 Source Domain: www.newsday.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.newsday.com\/ace\/c:OGNkMGVmYjMtZDc0ZS00:OTFmNjBlMGItM2UxMy00\/landscape\/1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261231,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261229\/revisions\/261231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}